"Feel Good", illogical  "liberalism" always has "unintended" consequences.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Why are we shipping horses to Mejico?

I mean, come on, how many Chinese restaurants are there in Mejico?

Are there any McDonald's processing plants in Mejico?

Ms. Davidson, it would help to provide the history of this and as we are a helpful family of knowledge, here am I to explain another Newsbuster's exclusive.

The genesis of this was in the origins of the garbage groups for animal profits like PETA and the Humane Society. They found that there were a bunch of wounded souls lurking to the Democratic voters and put up pictures of the one thing everyone loved in Westerns and that being horses who were at the late 1960's a bunch of bone piles, infested with worms and covered with burrs running wild on our BLM public lands.

A good example of these "horses" were Col. Charles Askins who was with the Border Patrol and Forest Service speaking of Navajo "horses". These were not Secretariat nor Trigger, but as stated above a sort of starving, worthless, diseased carrying plague which was destroying habitat for wildlife. Askins used to shoot the reservation "horses" when they strayed on public land and fed them to his hounds which he ran to kill predators, so the predators were not killing pusscat and fido.

These nags were of great use in feeding pets in that industry, but when Wild Horse Annie out of Nevada shut everything down, a most horrid check was lost. America almost lost it's Desert Big Horn Rams due to the horses destroying all the grazing.

So "adoption" was the key..........well, the first years were great as adoption was picking up $100 nags and they shipped out to ranches, were fattened up and then sold at a profit for slaughter. These horses were a good eating market item which went to Europe as the Europeans just love eating horse meat.

Then the money grabbing jackasses in the Interior found out they could make more money by screwing Americans over by selling horses in "adoption" at $300 fine now. These "mustangs" are still untamed and pure nags which require vast amounts of horse know how as they are WILD, WILD, WILD.

2 sectors of the Federal Government now operate. Interior of the BLM rounds up and tries to con these unmanageable nags onto consumers who then end up having the BLM stick their nose into your business forever to make sure you "take care of that nag you can not tame".
The Federal Wildlife has a much simpler plan, they just shoot every burro, donkey and horse on their wildlife acres. Making great coyote and eagle feed which does not rot.

This leads us to your article and what the dufus New York Times does not understand as they did not ask someone who knows what is going on.

Point 1, the slaughter industry, being deprived of cheap worthless wild nags and still having a pet food and European people food market begging for horse meat then turned into, yes you guessed it, the Trigger and tame horse market. So all of those horses which could have been pets as they are domesticated end up now on some Dutchman's table and pooped into the Dutch Sea.

This brings about the long distance transportation of horses. I will disagree about the nonsense of horses being injured as they are an investment until dead and over abuse of them causes pounds to be shed and dehydrating them is a loss of poundage, so the slaughter people are not going to overtly harm their investment.
By the same understanding, they are not going to be grooming, providing pellets or being gentle with these horses as they will be dead. They have ceased being pets and just like PETA and the Humane Society's multi million slaughter of dogs and cats each year.........the pet becomes an animal and the animal a dead carcase.

In understanding this, I have strong emotions in the BLM nags should be rounded up and slaughtered as a renewable resource as they always were, but people think those nags are mustangs wild and free. Just look at some of Frederick Remington's art and you will see a walking shaggy bone pile. That is what a mustang is........a mean wild animal which requires a great deal of savy to even train and it is where the term "breaking a horse" came from as one had to break them literally.

I know very well someone reading this will speak of the conditioning possible by BLM sanctioned trainers on mustangs. Yes one can end up with a riding horse IF YOU ARE AN EXPERT or if you end up with cross, but there is a reason the Indians rode with Mexican bits to control those wild creatures.......as Col. Dodge reported would eat cottonwood bark all winter and if one fed them they just turned into fat ornery pigs.

There is a reason the English plow horse was crossed with Spanish Barbs and the infamous Arabian to create........Thoroughbreds, Quarterhorses and Morgans as the orignal wild horses were all nags.
The Nez Pierce and Cayuse out of these Canadian imports created the Cayuse, Ap and the Curly of the Crow Indians. The pinto became the Paint as it was Americanized into a horse one could use.

Teddy Roosevelt in speaking of these wild horses from Texas stated this about his ranch. He had 40 horses. The best was Manitou his hunting horse and a little cutting mare to small to ride all the time. The other 38 were about 5 manageable horses (a grey he had threw him and dislocated his thumb and that was a "good" riding horse) 25 which one could ride and expect to be thrown.....and the remaining bunch would either attack you when you went into the corral or tried to kill you by biting, pawing or kicking.

I want to make the point that wild horses like wolves are wild and domesticated horses are tame like dogs after conditioning.

This past October I acquired an "Indian horse" which was a medicine hat quarter horse cross that would be pooped into the Dutch Sea if not for me. She has one blue eye and one brown eye, a dilute and dark gene mix. I also acquired a "range horse" which was a quarter horse filly of rather big size who was as untamed as the wind. It took me 3 weeks to convince her it was just ok to touch her and for her to like it.
Both horses after daily care still blow up on occasion as horses will do. I state this that these are horses who are domesticated and unhandled and it is going to take some very adept training and conditioning to get them to settle. They have good days and like this week I had 3 days of the terrible two year olds in the range horse was "acting untamed again".

I state all of this to show I know the subject and horses well enough in my many vocations. Horses are not the plugs one cuddles and loves. Horses need to be conditioned by subtle dominance that the human is the one in command or the human is going to be bit, kicked or killed.

I would love it if we lived in a world where one could shelve horses and all horses were Silver and Scout, but that is not the case. I have had to sell horses for slaughter and have had my cattle horses who I should have sold die of old age and ate the cost, because they "earned" that I figured.

The best solution is simple. Put into place NOT government BLM or GAME flunkies from college, but real stockmen to oversee roundups where nags are not run into the ground nor abused. Let the stockmen sort the better horses out for real adoption or for turning them loose to improve the mustang. Slaughter the culls as the world has always done and does daily to even the apple tree being cut down which does not produce the best vegan fruit........and give the tame horse market a break.

One has to understand that horses eat like horses in the wild or in the corral. Many people will breed mares "to just help pay that feed bill" and dump these breeders onto the slaughter market. That is the way things work........I won't do it, because I won't do that to animals, but the government has no business telling anyone not to as these are animals.

I don't like the slaughter pens, but then I wouldn't like some European going hungry either if horse meat makes him alive and happy. I just don't have to feed them my horses and by God's grace never will.

Horses though need to be understood that the ones pulling Half Pint's wagon are not the nags dealing with cougars, coyotes, wolves and bears daily or being shot at by Feds.

That though is a brief history........it is not the slaughter market's making, but it is dense PETA types and crying ignorants who make money off of issues, pass idiot laws and then come up with New York Times dumba** statements like "Mexico cuts horses spines".

Yeah and the PETA types gas puppies and kitties which causes animals to suffocate.........GET THE POINT, the Mexicans are being more humane than all the people complaining about it. Death is death and it is not going to stop. It though can be fixed to lessen market demand on horses that actually want a relationship with humans by utilizing a renewable resource of the nags running on BLM lands.

Sure beats Ranger Rick pumping lead into a nag and leaving it rot........but Rick is only doing it to protect wildlife species native to America.

I suspect the Times will want some cursed law "regulating" and taxing horses on farms now to stop this "cruel" practice........when it was the New York Times horse sh*t which started this mess in the beginning.
It was all working fine until the liberals got involved.

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The concept of unintended consequences reminds me of another PETA related story from some time ago.  In the 1990's PETA's anti-fur movement was successful at lowering the demand for fur coats.  One result of this was that, in one U.S. western state, coyote fur essentially lost its value.  So fur takers reduced the hunting of coyotes due to the decline in the commerical value of their pelts.  Well, the coyote populations began to expand out of control, so much in fact that they became more than a nuisance, but downright dangerous.  The state government had to hire hunters to shoot coyotes.  The net result of all of this was that fur trappers were basically denied a source of income and coyotes were still being killed, except that, instead of actually being used for a commerically viable purpose, their carcasses were left to rot.  And, instead of a fur industry actually supporting people and their families, tax dollars were used to pay someone to do what was previously being done for free.  In fact, the trapping was actually a source of revenue for the state from the purchase of licenses.   The bottom line is there was nothing good about any of this.  Yet, I bet PETA still counted it as some kind of victory.